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Atlantea

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Re: Call to Action: Thank the media
« Reply #420 on: October 25, 2012, 03:11:49 PM »
I find it telling that the decline started IMMEDIATELY after we held the first Unity rally and got the attention of the gaming media!

For a few weeks I was hesitant to say that the ups and downs of the stock indicated whether it was definitely going down in an overall trend or not.

But looking at it now, if you average out the ups and downs, the overall trend is almost a DEAD STRAIGHT LINE down from the peak on Sept 7th.

I'd call THAT a RESULT.

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Re: Call to Action: Thank the media
« Reply #421 on: October 25, 2012, 03:16:15 PM »
Can I ask everyone to hit the 'recommend' button on this one to bump it up?

http://www.nowpublic.com/culture/nc-soft-destroys-online-community-and-wont-tell-anyone-why

I know that a lot of big news outlets source news from nowpublic, and the more interest/recommendations it gets, the more likely it is that someone 'proper' will pick up on it :)
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Re: Call to Action: Thank the media
« Reply #422 on: October 25, 2012, 03:21:51 PM »
Do I have to make an account with them to do this?

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Re: Call to Action: Thank the media
« Reply #423 on: October 25, 2012, 03:25:27 PM »
I don't think so. There should be a 'thumbs up' icon on the right hand side. It shows up as about halfway down for me.
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Re: Call to Action: Thank the media
« Reply #424 on: October 25, 2012, 03:35:17 PM »
I got the recommend button under the facebook stuff.  It was a grey button with a check mark.  Hit it and it turned yellow.
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Re: Call to Action: Thank the media
« Reply #425 on: October 25, 2012, 03:55:16 PM »
Aha. I saw what I was looking for and recommended it!

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Re: Call to Action: Thank the media
« Reply #426 on: October 25, 2012, 06:16:32 PM »
Found the button, and hit it!
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Re: Call to Action: Thank the media
« Reply #427 on: October 26, 2012, 07:33:05 AM »
Something weird here. There's a page here, that SHOULD have an article about CoH, and it seems to have been erased from existence. It turns up on Google search and is only a day old, yet even searching from the page itself yields nada. This is the redirect. http://www.nowpublic.com/tag/Culture

The article title according to Google was: "NC Soft destroys an online community - and won't tell anyone why."



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Re: Call to Action: Thank the media
« Reply #428 on: October 26, 2012, 08:27:54 AM »
It looks as if they've removed it. It was certainly up there a little earlier.
 I'll contact them and see if I can find out why :)

ETA: Aaah. Apparently there was a query with it. They emailed me, but since my mail provider inexplicably locked me out two days ago and hasn't sorted it out yet, I never got the email, couldn't reply and nowpublic decided I didn't exist and deleted the article. Grrr. I'll try to repost it when I've got access to my mail again.
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Re: Call to Action: Thank the media
« Reply #429 on: October 26, 2012, 05:23:22 PM »
It looks as if they've removed it. It was certainly up there a little earlier.
 I'll contact them and see if I can find out why :)

ETA: Aaah. Apparently there was a query with it. They emailed me, but since my mail provider inexplicably locked me out two days ago and hasn't sorted it out yet, I never got the email, couldn't reply and nowpublic decided I didn't exist and deleted the article. Grrr. I'll try to repost it when I've got access to my mail again.

dang.

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Re: Call to Action: Thank the media
« Reply #430 on: October 26, 2012, 05:29:05 PM »
no worries. got word of a goodun due to go up soon :)
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Re: Call to Action: Thank the media
« Reply #431 on: October 26, 2012, 06:07:26 PM »

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Re: Call to Action: Thank the media
« Reply #432 on: October 26, 2012, 06:15:03 PM »
I've begun to wonder:

    What would it take for this campaign to become noticable to the public eye?

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Re: Call to Action: Thank the media
« Reply #433 on: October 26, 2012, 06:44:34 PM »
I'm hoping for the "disgusted at NC's T&A offering. Binning family entertainment for cartoon porn" reports.

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Re: Call to Action: Thank the media
« Reply #434 on: October 26, 2012, 07:29:14 PM »
Here it is, I had issues first time but then I got it via Chrome. This I got from Google cache. PLEASE repost it, it's great:

I will admit to being baffled.

On Wednesday, after I emailed that article out, I started getting login failures on my mail.com account that I sent it from, and then when I went to their webmail client, I was told my account had been blocked. Apparently this isn't unusual for mail.com, and a quick google found a whole bunch of people complaining that their accounts were frequently blocked for no apparent reason.

When I went back to nowpublic, it turned out that my account there  (the one I posted that article with) has been either 'blocked or marked inactive'. Unfortunately, as it was registered through my mail.com account, so I have no idea why. I took a browse through their FAQ but I couldn't see where I'd broken any of their golden rules, so I'm a little bemused by it. Until my email account is back, there's not that much I can do about it, but hopefully I can sort that once it's up and running.

Aaanyway...whatever that's all about, I've had some good news from my friend at Starburst and a piece based off the information in that article is currently with their editor and should hopefully be up before too much longer. They are very sympathetic to our cause and grateful to us for the support we've shown their site when they've run articles about City of Heroes.

I said it in the original thread (http://www.cohtitan.com/forum/index.php/topic,5781.0.html) but I know how fast things scroll around here, so if anyone has press contacts, blogs, or is a citizen journalist, please feel free to take that article, re-write it, make it your own and send it wherever you feel it might get an audience.
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Re: Call to Action: Thank the media
« Reply #435 on: October 26, 2012, 09:19:03 PM »
Hello again,

I figured I'd post this here rather than create a new thread. I've received a lot of suggestions (both from this forum and through my own channels) to add a section on to my website where players can share thoughts about their most memorable MMO moments. So starting in a week or two (depending on response), I will be starting up a regular addition to MMO Fallout, where players can submit and share their thoughts and memories of gaming. Personally I could fill several books with all the memories I have, so I will be adding my own thoughts to each article.

Most of them will not be themed, but for the first piece I want to focus on NCSoft's shuttered games. If you have any memories (or suggestions for the article) you'd like to share, send them to me via private message or email (contact@mmofallout.com). If you know anyone who would want to take part, feel free to throw them my email.

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Re: Call to Action: Thank the media
« Reply #436 on: October 26, 2012, 09:37:33 PM »
My Latest response in the comments of the EGM article:

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Frankly I'm enjoying watching NCSoft's stock continue it's slide down the hole.

http://www.reuters.com/finance/stocks/chart?symbol=036570.KS

I find it quite telling that the upward trend that began just after they announced the closing of Paragon studios was STOPPED DEAD in it's tracks and started a more or less straight line downward almost LITERALLY the day after the Unity Rally with all the torchbearers in-game and the save City of Heroes efforts began.

NCsoft have NO IDEA of the whirlwind they are about to reap in terms of bad publicity. They think it's bad now, wait until November 30th passes and City of Heroes close down the servers for the last time, then the gloves of the former community will truly come off.

To paraphrase Mr. Stark from The Avengers: "If we can't protect Paragon City you can be damn certain we will AVENGE it!"

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Re: Call to Action: Thank the media
« Reply #438 on: October 27, 2012, 03:06:42 PM »

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Re: Call to Action: Thank the media
« Reply #439 on: October 28, 2012, 02:08:18 PM »
Dammit, why didn't I know we had a dedicated 'Save City of Heroes' site already? Under the domain name savecoh no less! That's bloody important, now we have a dedicated hub to send people to, with a nice simple link. Heck, they can even remember the url on their own.